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201) Brendan
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Saint Brendán the Navigator, whose legendary quest to find the Isle of the Blessed is one of the most remarkable and enduring of early Christian tales. Llywelyn's imaginative retelling of the legend is a story of truth and transcendence, of inner strength and daily discipline, and a story of towering faith.
Author
Series
Battalion of St. Patrick volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
387 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Changing Flags" is the true story of John Riley, a cocky Irish professional soldier who deserts the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico at first for money, then for something loftier in the Mexican War of 1846-48. With gritty action, romance, and humor, it brings to life his torturous journey of reformation and that of rowdy Irish and German fellow deserters who follow him in pursuit of a shared dream. Their epic tale begins in Michigan when Riley launches...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
541 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Jesús, un joven rebelde que se opone pacíficamente a la dominación de Roma, que no hace milagros pero sí ayuda a pobres y prostitutas y que se convierte en líder casi a su pesar. Pero lo que se cuenta aquí no se la historia que ya conocemos sino la de las mujeres en una época en la que la inteligencia, el ingenio y la inquietud, eran propiedad de los hombres. Una reivindicación feminista en una novela en la...
206) Learned by heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen"--
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (595 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Dangerous and powerful, hunger stalks the Donner party at every turn through the unpredictable wilderness as they make their pivotal decision to leave the trail on their journey across the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846 -- 1847. Thrust into peril and desperation through a long, cold winter, the party inches, terrifyingly, toward the unthinkable. Narrated by the ghostly and provocative voice of Hunger and the many members of the party, the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
vi, 215 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari's small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen. Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1913, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Lawrence, Kansas, Massacre, former bushwhacker Cole Younger stands before a preacher at a tent revival. "I was, I remain, and I will always be a wicked man," Younger states, taking a step toward salvation. For a man like Cole Younger, there is much to confess. Born to a well-to-do Missouri family, Cole Younger dreams of being a good Christian, joining the Masons, marrying a good woman -- maybe even following...
210) The women: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the life of Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin.
211) El retrato de casada
Author
Series
Publisher
Libros del Asteroide
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Florencia, mediados del siglo XVI. Lucrezia, tercera hija del gran duque Cosimo de' Medici, es una niña callada y perspicaz, con un singular talento para el dibujo, que disfruta de su discreto y tranquilo lugar en el palazzo. Pero cuando muere su hermana Maria, justo antes de casarse con Alfonso d'Este, primogénito del duque de Ferrara, Lucrezia se convierte inesperadamente en el centro de atención: el duque se apresura a pedir su mano, y su padre...
212) Longhorns east
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Candy Ponting was no ordinary trail boss. He didn't smoke, chew, cuss, or even carry a gun. Unlike his competitors, he learned how to herd cows on a farm back in England - and how to handle cowboys in bareknuckle prizefights. But his skills and know-how were really put to the test when he accepted a bet he might live to regret: lead a cattle drive from Texas to New York City. Not one to back down on a dare, Ponting assembles the motliest crew...
213) Followed by the lark
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of change, Followed by the Larkinhabits the life of Henry David Thoreau.
Henry felt his pulse quickening with the lengthening days and the return of the birds, with the leafing out of the trees and the whir of the poplars, the trembling song of the frogs in the marsh.
We mark time and make our mark on the earth, even as everything around us is shifting...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel exploring "Georgia O'Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist". Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist. This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have mine. In 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she...
215) Diva
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. But her fame was hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her golden voice, she learned early in life to protect herself from those who would use her...
216) Fire from heaven
Author
Series
Alexander the Great trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
375 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon.
217) The raven's honor
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. Yet now, approaching seventy years of hard living, he finds everything he has fought for being torn asunder. Texas is joining the Confederacy, and Houston, a Unionist who has been cast out as governor, quickly loses power, prestige, and friends. He could hide in retirement, but such is not the way of a warrior. The Raven prepares for his most important fight yet.
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